Users of WordPress take note, WordCamp is coming to Birmingham!

WordCamp Birmingham is a conference for WordPress users and developers being held in Birmingham, Alabama on September 27 & 28, 2008. It is one of several WordCamps that have been held or being planned around the world.

Please visit the WordCamp Birmingham site for more details.

Join us thisTuesday the 16th at New Horizons Learning Center as Sandy Sanders of EBSCO Industries presents on SQL Server Integration Services.  Sandy has over ten years of IT experience including development, database, and Business Intelligence work.  He currently serves as the Data Warehouse Architect at EBSCO where he oversees the Enterprise Business Intelligence team.  He primarily deals with ETL processing from multiple source systems to SQL Server databases, and uses Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services to service EBSCO’s BI needs.  PeoplePlex will be sponsoring this meeting by providing food and beverages.

Ryan Duclos - Reporting Services 2008 Report Authoring

Meeting: Tuesday, 11/18/2008 6:00:00 PM CST

Speaker: Ryan Duclos

Location: MIT 651 Church St Mobile, AL 36602

Ryan Duclos is the Program Director for Lower AL .Net User Group and a Technical consultant for Perficient, Inc. He will be presenting on the new features of Reporting Service 2008 report authoring.

Please RSVP Ryan Duclos (rduclos@gmail.com) and let him know if you’re coming.

Visit the Lower Alabama .NET Users Group website for more information.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the September BUG.NET meeting has been cancelled. Instead users are encouraged to attend this Thursday’s BSDA meeting and hear Jeff Barnes speak on Enterprise Library.

The BUG.NET group apologizes for the last minute notice, and hopes to see everyone Thursday.

On Thursday, September 11 Jeff Barnes, MVP, will present at the Birmingham Software Developers Association. His subject will be the Enterprise Library.

Enterprise Library is a collection of application blocks provided by the Microsoft Patterns & Practice Team. These application blocks are essentially “infrastructure modules” that can be used “as is”, extended, or modified to assist with solving common development challenges such as database access, logging, validation, and more. In this presentation, we will survey the major features that Enterprise Library has to offer by taking a look at both pros and cons of the most commonly used application blocks.

The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the New Horizons Training Center in Homewood, AL. Everyone is welcome.

Since there are so many events coming to Alabama, we decided to create an uber-post listing them all!

MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow – September Edition

The MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow is a half day free developer event with a southern flair, where you will learn about some of the latest developments in Microsoft technologies. For September, 2008 the Roadshow will be presented by Architect Evangelist Chad Brooks and Developer Evangelist Glen Gordon. Chad and Glen will be loading up a minivan with lots of goodies, and trying to hit 5 cities in 5 days.

We’ll start the morning with a quick update on a variety of developer topics. The we’ll spend the rest of the morning exploring the impact that REST has had on solutions architecture and the Microsoft Technologies that you need to leverage it.

Every attendee will receive an MS Press book (while supplies last) as well as pointers to tons of resources for further learning. Register today using the links below. We’re trying to finalize the last cities, so check back for more.

• September 15 – Montgomery, AL
• September 16 – Tuscaloosa, AL (Registration link will be here soon)
• September 17 – Birmingham, AL
• September 18 – Mobile, AL
• September 19 – Hattiesburg, MS

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Resources

Stay tuned for links, downloads and more about the topics we’ll be presenting on.

Agenda

Microsoft Developer Update

First, we will do a survey of the set of just-released products and how they will impact developers.  See what’s new in Windows Server 2008:  Hypervisor Technology, IIS7, and others.  SQL 2008 is also packed with goodies for Developers;  see the geospatial capabilities as well as the LINQ enhancements.  And don’t forget the myriad of enhancements that come with the .Net Framework 3.5!

REST with WCF, ADO.NET Data Services, and ASP.NET MVC

The evolution of the web has seen many changes in patterns and standards for working with services. In a world of AJAX and other lightweight clients, not all services need to be implemented with the bells and whistles that SOAP and its many specifications allow for. And not all services need to be “transport-neutral”. An alternative architectural approach known as REST is well suited for many web-based scenarios. You can implement a RESTful architecture using a variety of current and future Microsoft technologies. But how do you decide which ones are the best choices for your scenarios? These sessions of technical deep dives helps to answer that question. We will examine implementing RESTful services with WCF 3.5, using ADO.NET Data Services, and introduce the ASP.NET MVC framework.

MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow